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Who is Akhenaton?

Akhenaton: Philippe Fragione, better known by his stage name Akhenaton, is a French rapper and producer of French hip hop. He has also worked under the aliases Chill, AKH, Sentenza, and Spectre. He became famous as a member of the group IAM, and has since made a number of records, both with IAM and as a solo artist.

An odd and unexplained iconography gives Akhenaton a link to Nubia. On
occasion, Akhenaton was depicted wearing a skullcap and the double—cobra
uraeus that later became a common symbol for Kushites in the 25th Dynasty (q .v.
) ...

Various other sun gods—Aten, Ptah of Memphis, AmunRe—shared the name
and/or cosmology, but it was not until the Eighteenth Dynasty that the pharaoh
Akhenaton declared the sun disk the single god. This monotheistic aberration
lasted ...